Musophagotides
This superorder comprises the following orders:
Family-level timetree of extant Musophagotides, with the distribution of each family being indicated by the colour-code used throughout this website (see Distribution code). The relationships are based on Jarvis et al. (2014) and Kuhl et al (2021). Divergence time follow Kuhl et al. (2021).
References/Literature
Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, Aberer AA, et al. (2014), Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds,
Science 346, 1320-1331.(pdf)
Kuhl H, Frankl-Vilches C, Bakker A, Mayr G, Nikolaus G, Boerno ST, Klages S, Timmermann B, and Gahr M (2021), An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life, Mol. Biol. Evol. 38, 108-127. (pdf)
Prum RO, Berv JS, Dornburg A, Field DJ, Townsend JP, Lemmon EM, and Lemmon AR (2015), A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves)
using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing, Nature 526, 569-573. (abstract)